The President of the United States can't repeal a law like the Clean Water Act, but the Trump Administration is going ahead with plans to undermine the CWA by severely limiting the long-evolving rules that underpin it. It's the latest episode of a saga that we have been covering since early last year.

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09/05/2019
It's no coincidence that indigenous and traditional communities control one-third of the world's remaining tropical forests, for these groups have long managed their forests in ways that provide ...Read More...

09/12/2019
Deforestation was supposed to be cut in half between 2014 and 2020, with 150 million hectares of land being restored. Instead, deforestation has surged 43 percent, according to a new report ...Read More...

09/04/2019
Farming and forestry account for nearly a quarter of all the greenhouse gas emissions generated by man, and deforestation of tropical forests accounts for half of this. To end deforestation, we ...Read More...

08/28/2019
Deforestation is a classic “wicked problem” with no easy solutions. REDD+ has been conceived to be the master of this problem. In this new series, we’ll look whether REDD+ has delivered on the ...Read More...

08/21/2019
Tropical forests are our first line of defense against climate change, and the Tropical Forest Standard creates a blueprint through which industries can offset part of their carbon emissions by ...Read More...

08/16/2019
Republican lawmakers have been reticent about directly attacking popular laws like the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act, but the Trump Administration has chosen to undermine them by ...Read More...

08/14/2019
The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on land use and climate change reveals seven important things to take note of on the relationship between forests and climate change.

08/12/2019
Ranchers and farmers earn their livelihoods managing land in ways that deliver goods and services the rest of us are willing to pay for. Far too many of them, however, have not yet learned about ...Read More...

08/08/2019
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its long-waited Special Report on Climate Change and Land this morning. Written by 107 authors drawing on more than 7,000 scientific ...Read More...

08/07/2019
Natural climate solutions are finally beginning to get the kind of media attention they need, but that can be a double-edged chainsaw if certain nuances are lost. We take stock of the last few ...Read More...

08/01/2019
Our forests, wetlands, urban green spaces, and sustainably-managed farms and ranches provide clean and reliable water for most of the world's urbanites, yet they are often treated as little more ...Read More...

07/26/2019
Natural climate solutions are key to meeting the climate challenge, but scaling them up requires rigorous accounting for the way our management of forests, farms, and fields impacts greenhouse ...Read More...

07/24/2019
The Accountability Framework aims to provide a global consensus on how to define a forest and how to track the impact that commodity companies have on deforestation the world. Launched in June, ...Read More...

07/15/2019
Natural climate solutions can get us one-third of the way to meeting the Paris Agreement's 2-degree target, but they draw just 3 percent of climate finance. We can change that by developing a new ...Read More...

07/15/2019
Major media are finally waking up to the role that trees can play in slowing and even reversing climate change, and that’s great. Unfortunately, most still seem oblivious to mechanisms emerging ...Read More...

07/11/2019
The climate challenge is complex, and so are the solutions emerging for meeting it. Unfortunately, the same sloppy reporting that got us into this mess is now threatening to keep us here, says ...Read More...

07/09/2019
Utility regulators from a range of US states are questioning the wisdom of investing in new natural gas facilities, which look increasingly risky compared to low-cost wind and solar projects. ...Read More...

06/25/2019
Hundreds of corporations say they want to reduce their impact on forests, and many actually make good on that claim. Most, however, say haven't been able to do so because every NGO seems to have ...Read More...

06/25/2019
Commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement aren't yet deep enough to avoid a climate catastrophe, but more and more countries and companies are either contemplating or committing to carbon ...Read More...

06/21/2019
The European Council has failed to put a date on its carbon neutrality pledge after four countries – the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Poland – pushed back against the rest of the block. ...Read More...

06/17/2019
Two weeks of UN climate talks opened today in the former German capital of Bonn, with the 50th meetings of both the Subsidiary Body for Implementation and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and ...Read More...

06/10/2019
Some of the world's most high-profile companies have committed to purging deforestation from their commodity supply chains, but they amount to just 8 percent of global companies involved in the ...Read More...

06/09/2019
Renewable energy costs have plunged in the past decade, but we're still trillions shy of meeting the climate challenge. Carbon taxes will drive down emissions and fund solutions, while a general ...Read More...

06/06/2019
Mainstream media are finally coming to terms with the enormity of the climate challenge, but their shift from complacency to panic mode may leave people feeling helpless. To implement real ...Read More...

01/25/2019
Nearly two dozen people have joined the race to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, and all of them – in contrast with their sole Republican counterpart – ...Read More...

05/31/2019
For decades, palm oil companies got big by being bad – specifically, by chopping forests to make way for oil palm plantations. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was created in 2004 to ...Read More...

05/29/2019
The generally-accepted social cost of carbon is roughly $100 per ton of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but voluntary carbon prices rarely top $10 per ton. New research shows that a price of ...Read More...

05/28/2019
Everyone agrees that we must save the world's forests if we're to end climate change, but how to get there? One cluster of tools involves using carbon finance to keep forests alive, and a ...Read More...

05/23/2019
Mainstream media outlets have been congratulating themselves of late for becoming just 20 years too late on climate change, and now the same institutions that have consistently failed to cover ...Read More...